Re: How to extract TODOs from date-tree

[Jay Iyer <jayiyer09@gmail.com>]

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Hi Thorsten,

The file entries are as follows and the task/note/project sub-heads
generally don't have active/inactive timestamps except when a
scheduling/deadline is specified.  Thanks.

** 2014-10 October

*** 2014-10-01 Wednesday

**** TODO first task

**** General note entry

**** Project                  :prj:


Jay Iyer <address@hidden> writes:

Hi,
>* I have my Org files set up as date-trees containing a mix of notes,*
>* tasks and projects. I now have a need to generate a list of projects*
>* and tasks filed under specific date-tree or in a range of dates. Is it*
>* possible to get this listing from the date-trees if the entries*
>* themselves don't have date/time in timestamps or in properties*
>* settings? I couldn't find a solution in the archives. Please advise.*
>* Thank you.*

what is a date tree? This:

,----
| *  <2014-10-28 Di>
`----

?

If the date-tree is the parent and has a timestamp, then the entries
are part of the contents of parent, and you can use this function to
map over the parents

,----[ C-h f org-element-map RET ]
| org-element-map is a compiled Lisp function in `org-element.el'.
|
| (org-element-map DATA TYPES FUN &optional INFO FIRST-MATCH
| NO-RECURSION WITH-AFFILIATED)
|
| Map a function on selected elements or objects. [...]
`----

and this to get their contents

,----[ C-h f org-element-contents RET ]
| org-element-contents is a compiled Lisp function in `org-element.el'.
|
| (org-element-contents ELEMENT)
|
| Extract contents from an ELEMENT.
`----

and then 'org-element-property' and 'org-element-put-property' to get
and set timestamp info from the parent and any other info from the child
entries.

-- 
cheers,
Thorsten



On Tue, Oct 28, 2014 at 8:53 AM, Jay Iyer <jayiyer09@gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi,
> I have my Org files set up as date-trees containing a mix of notes, tasks
> and projects.  I now have a need to generate a list of projects and tasks
> filed under specific date-tree or in a range of dates.  Is it possible to
> get this listing from the date-trees if the entries themselves don't have
> date/time in timestamps or in properties settings?  I couldn't find a
> solution in the archives.  Please advise.
> Thank you.
> -jay
>

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